Mahatma Ayyankali: Birth anniversary celebrated

Mahatma Ayyankali: Birth anniversary celebrated

Part of: GS-Prelims and GS-I – Modern History; Important hisrotical personalities

In News:

• Indian Prime Minister recently remembered Mahatma Ayyankali on his birth anniversary.

Image source: Click here

Important value additions 

Ayyankali (1863 – 1941) 

• He was a social reformer.
• He worked for the advancement of deprived untouchable people in the princely state of Travancore, British India. 
• He belonged to the Pulayar community of untouchable people.
• He founded the Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham (SJPS) (Association for the Protection of the Poor) 
• The Association campaigned for access to schools and raised funds to set up Pulayar-operated schools in the interim.